More blasts in Beirut after Israel demands new evacuations – as it happened
by Rebecca Ratcliffe and (earlier) Léonie Chao-Fong, from World news | The Guardian on (#6R7C4)
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The Israeli military launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut on Thursday night, in one of the most intense bombardments on the city since the campaign began last week.
A source close to Hezbollah told the AFP news agency that Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group's stronghold in the Lebanese capital.
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